Senior Research Scientist NLP LLM GenAI

Senior Research Scientist (NLP, LLM, GenAI) at Dataminr

See yourself at Dataminr. As a Research Scientist, you’ll be working on some of the most challenging AI problems in real-time event detection and directly contributing to products while advancing the state of the art. You'll architect and implement Generative AI and Agentic AI and knowledge graph features for our real-time alerting platform. This critical role involves developing innovative solutions that enable seamless external and internal data consumption and deliver high-impact insights. This role can be remote anywhere in the US or based out of our New York City office.

AI Innovation at Dataminr

Working at Dataminr, you’ll have the opportunity to tackle the most exciting trends in AI on a daily basis to power a revolutionary product that uncovers critical events around the world as they unfold.

• Regenerative AI: Our AI technology, ReGenAI, is a new form of generative AI that automatically regenerates real-time Live Event Briefs as events unfold. Learn more here.
• Agentic AI: We recently launched our Agentic AI capability, what we’re calling our Intel Agents, that autonomously generates critical context for our clients on real-time events, threats, and risks, allowing them to see the clearest, most accurate view of what’s happening on the ground. Learn more here.
• Multimodal AI: Our platform detects events from many different types of data (images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages). Learn more here.

The Opportunity

• Perform research to advance the state of the art and solve specific problems at scale in one or more of the following areas: Agentic AI, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Time-Series Modeling, Machine and Deep Learning, Entities Recognition and Alignment, Information Extraction, and Knowledge Graphs.
• Work closely with a diverse, interdisciplinary team to deliver value to customers (existing and new products).
• Contribute to the research community via publications in top-tier venues, participation in program committees, etc.
• Excel in placing a human-centered focus on the work (context, end-user impact, etc.), finding solutions that work in practice and have significant impact.
• Productionize and ship research into Dataminr’s products, and thus to its users worldwide.
• Senior candidates are expected to lead technical areas and/or people.

What You Bring

At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don’t meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed.

• Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience in one or more of the following topics: AI for cybersecurity, LLMs, agentic AI, generation, machine translation, summarization, topic detection & tracking, text classification, knowledge extraction/representation/management, trending topic detection, search, machine learning and deep learning, etc.
• Outstanding publication record (IEEE, AAAI, NeurIPS, CVPR, ACL, TACL, EMNLP, WWW, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, set up experiments and demonstrate progress through principled use of metrics.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with relevant AI/ML libraries and frameworks such as PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, and LangGraph.
• Experience with LLM serving technologies such as vLLM is a plus.

About Dataminr

At Dataminr, we are a mission-driven team of talented builders, creators, and visionaries who have real-world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events. Dataminr’s groundbreaking, AI-powered, intelligence platform provides organizations with the earliest signals of emerging risks, events, and threats before they unfold. Trusted by two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100, Dataminr’s platform analyzes billions of public data inputs spanning text, image, video, audio, and sensor data across 150+ languages, empowering our clients to stay one step ahead in an increasingly complex world where every second counts.

Founded in 2009, we have pioneered the world’s first real-time event detection platform, long before the recent Gen AI ‘boom.’ Dataminr operates all around the world united by our passion to use AI for the greater good, be agents of positive change, and put our technology into the hands of clients charged with the responsibility to keep organizations running and keep people safe.

As our employees focus on developing our revolutionary technology, we focus on our employees. Dataminr is proud to offer a variety of flexible work arrangements, offices all over the world to foster collaboration, generous PTO and sick leave, and more, as part of our competitive benefits package aimed at keeping all our employees happy and healthy. Explore all our benefits here.

We believe our differences give us strength. Our employees are empowered to be their best, authentic selves through various opportunities, such as our robust employee resource group (ERG) network, manager development programming, professional development funds, and more.

We serve a global community made up of many cultures and strive to reflect the world and clients we serve, with a workforce built on merit and equity. We actively condemn racism and discrimination in any form. We stand for social good, fostering a culture of allyship, and standing up for those who face systemic barriers to equality. We lead with empathy and strive to be agents of positive change in our company and in our communities.

The annual base salary range for this position is $160,000 - $234,000. You will also be eligible to receive a discretionary bonus and Company equity. Actual salary will be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, applicant skills, and prior relevant experience.

Dataminr is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Individuals seeking employment at Dataminr are considered without regards to race, sex, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, marital status, pregnancy, unemployment status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status.

Dataminr will collect and process your personal data. All personal data will be processed in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Please see Dataminr's candidate privacy notice available here. By providing your details and applying via our careers website, you acknowledge that you have read our candidate privacy notice. If you have any queries, please contact the People Team at hr@dataminr.com or privacy@dataminr.com.

Key skills/competency

• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Large Language Models (LLM)
• Generative AI (GenAI)
• Agentic AI
• Knowledge Graphs
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Python
• PyTorch
• Research